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The minerals on Lavaland have two different levels of hardness. Level 1 minerals are light grey, and can be broken in 1 hit. Level 2 minerals are found on '''Hardened Basalt''', a darker type of rock that needs 2 hits to be broken, and spawns more ores once broken. '''Granite''' is more likely to hold rarer minerals, as the brown rock takes three hits to break, and spawns even more ores once broken.

You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of seven. These items, and their strengths, are:

*'''Explorer's Kit''': The webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment - having a second shelter capsule is nice too. The duffelbag contains 3 lesser mining charges.

*'''Mining Conscription Kit''': A dufflebag full of basic items for one conscript - pickaxe, kinetic accelerator, explorer's suit, mesons, mining scanner and satchel, gas mask, a supply radio key, a gem satchel, and a special card that adds mining access to IDs. Good for when you want to recruit metafriends fresh conscripts.

*'''Mini Plasma Cutter Kit''': A weak plasma based mining tool.

!Lesser Mining Charges<br>[[File:Mining_chargelesser.gif|32px]]

!300 Points

|Yes

|Contains a pickaxe, kinetic accelerator, mesons, an ore scanner, an ore satchel, an explorer suit, a gas mask, a supply encryption key, a gem satchel, and a card which adds mining access to IDs.

|Yes

|For when you want something shinier and better than your default pickaxe and the scientists are either too lazy or too dead to make drills or jackhammers. STILL worse than a basic KA.

|No

!Upgraded Resonator<br>[[File:Adv_resonator.png|32px]]

!Seismic Right Arm<br>[[File:Seismic r arm.png|32x32px]]

|A cybernetic right arm that functions and acts like a cyborg right arm. However, having this augment or replace your right arm will grant you a list of four unique spells which grant superior agility and strength. The list is as follows:<br>

'''Lariat''': Dash 5 spaces and deal 50 true Brute to any fauna you hit. People take 10 true Brute, and silicons take 12 true Brute. 7-second cooldown.<br>

'''Mop the Floor''': Dash 5 spaces and carry any target you connect with you. For every tile you carry a fauna, they take 20 true Brute and you gain 90% damage reduction for the duration. People take 4 true Brute per tile, and silicons take 5 true Brute per tile. In addition, you don't gain any damage reduction while carrying a person or silicon. Any fauna killed by this is gibbed. 7-second cooldown.<br>

'''Suplex''': Moves a target directly in front of you behind you. Fauna take 20 true Brute, people take 6 true Brute, and silicons take 8 true Brute. If the target is moved onto a fauna or a person, the latter takes 20 true Brute or 10 true Brute respectively. Any fauna killed by the targeted suplex is gibbed. 1-second cooldown.<br>

'''Right Hook''': Charge for 2 seconds to power up your arm. The charge lasts 5 seconds. While it's charged, hitting a target will send them flying eight spaces. Fauna take 100 true Brute, people take 15 true Brute, and silicons take 18 true Brute. If another mob is in the path of the target's flight, they will take 30 true Brute, 10 true Brute, or 11 true Brute, if they are a fauna/person/silicon, respectively, as well as being knocked over. This move disables the seismic right arm for 15 seconds, making every other power unusable until then.<br>

Mop the Floor, Suplex, and Right Hook can send targets through rocks, dealing an additional 5 true Brute per tile they smash through. Any fauna killed by this will be gibbed.

|A rod that can be used to make yourself start swearing an oath. If you finish the oath, the staff will bind to your hand, giving you a healing aura and pacifism. When released, the snake bite injects godblood. Dying with the rod will transfer your mind to the snake. In addition, the rod itself can both copy procedures from a surgery computer and be used as a defibrillator when performing [[Surgery#Revival|Revival]] surgery.

|A pair of cubes. When one is used, it teleports the user to the location of the other cube instantly. Takes 3 seconds to use if the user is not on Lavaland.

!Enchanted Flowers<br>[[File:EmberFlowers.png.png|alt=|32x32px]]

|A bundle of flowers with a sweet firey aroma that makes animals friendly after 1.5 seconds of touching them with it. Squeeze the bouqet to summon tamed creatures. Megafauna cannot be summoned. Megafauna need to be exposed 35 times to become friendly.

!X-01 Power Armor<br>[[File:Hardsuit advancedpa1.png]]

|An X-01 Power Armor suit. It's initially not well armored, but can be upgraded with Weaver Chitin. It has no slowdown, and is immune to fire, lava, and acid.

! Memento Mori<br>[[File:Memento_mori.png|32px]]

|A curved sword smelted from an unknown metal.  

!Blindfold of Telepathy<br>[[File:Blindfold.png|32x32px]]

|A blindfold that permanently attaches to one's eyes when worn. Provides flash protection and thermal vision when put on, though it also renders the user, well, blind.

= The Wildlife - Non-Sentient=

The legion attacks are as follows:  

2. A legion core[[File:Legionsoul.gif]]. Hit yourself with the soul and it will instantly heal 25 brute and burn damage, and remove slowdown from damage for a minute. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes, making them completely useless until you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However, legion core can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] as an organ to provide a hands-free full heal. Using a legion core while not on Lavaland will take 4 seconds to apply to yourself, or 2 seconds to someone else. In addition, the damage slowdown removal is instead a reduction.

===Other variants===

=== Attacks===

*Hits a target in melee range, dealing mild brute damage.

===Loot===

The most common variant, when raised very close to lava some watchers adapt to the extreme heat and change coloration. Such watchers are known as magmawings and use intense heat as their tool for hunting and defense. The magmawing watcher shoots scorching blasts instead of freezing blasts, which heats you up and sets you on fire. Unlike normal watchers, a shot from this watcher will set you on fire and trying to roll it out will only result in the watcher getting more free shots on you, which means that you're pretty much forced to man up, pop a survival medi-pen, and melee it to death while you lose half of your HP to fire. It has normal watcher loot when butchered and has a small chance to drop a valuable [[Shaft Miner#Calcified Auric|calcified auric]].

====Icewing Watcher ====

The least common variant, some watchers will eke out an existence far from heat sources. In the absence of warmth, their wings will become papery and turn to an icy blue; these watchers are fragile but much quicker to fire their trademark freezing blasts. The icewing watcher has 50% less health and fire shots 33% more often. Getting hit by a blast from an icewing watcher freezes you in a block of ice for a very short amount of time. Their loot is similar to the normal watcher when butchered: 5 diamond ore but no sinew, there is also a small chance they drop a valuable [[Shaft Miner#Frost Diamond|frost diamond]].

== Goliath==

===Statistics===

===Attacks===

The goliath attacks are as follows:  

*Burrows several tentacles that emerge from the ground in random tiles around the target, trapping anything caught on targeted tiles for a long duration.

*Slams itself into the target, dealing medium brute damage.

=== Other variants===

===Statistics===

===Attacks===

===Loot===

When killed, they spit up multiple pieces of ore, based on what they ate. Feed them many different types of ore before killing them, and they'll spit out more of each type than you gave it! They also drop gold grub guts when butchered, which can be ground up for a potent medicinal reagent and rarely will also drop a valuable [[Shaft Miner#Ruperium Crystal|ruperium crystal]]. Use caution when consuming the gold grub guts however, it can cause severe liver damage if too much is ingested!

== Marrow Weaver==

===Attacks ===

*Hits a target in melee range, dealing mild brute damage and injecting 4 units of spore toxin. If enraged (at or below 33% health), instead injects 8 units of venom.

===Loot===

===Statistics===

=Crusher Trophies =

! scope="col" style="background-color:grey;color:white;" |Effect  

|Has a '''10%''' chance to summon a patch of goliath tentacles at the target's location on detonation.

!Broodmother  

| Does '''2''' more damage for every '''10''' health you are missing on detonation.

!Magmawing Watcher Wing  

!Legion

!Blood-Drunk Hunter

!Tail Spike

!Demon Claws

|Melee hits do '''2''' more damage and heals you for '''1''', with '''5x''' effect on mark detonation.

!Bubblegum

|Mark detonation makes the next destabilizer shot deal '''15''' damage but move slower.

|Creates a hierophant chaser that targets marked creature on mark detonation. Does '''10''' damage on crossing a target.

===Statistics ===

==Syndicate Scientists==

===Statistics===

! scope="col" style="background-color:grey;color:white;" |Name

! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:grey;color:white;" |Wall

!N/A  

===Who Needs What===

=The Wonders of Plasma Magmite =

Plasma Magmite is a rare ore that spawns exclusively in '''Hardened Basalt''' and '''Granite'''. It can only be dropped if destroyed by an explosion (gibtonite, mining charge, etc).

Take it to the '''World Anvil''' located in a guaranteed spawn ruin emitting a '''tempered signal''' letting you use your GPS to find it. The World Anvil must be heated first by using Gibtonite. Once heated, placing a piece of Plasma Magmite on it will forge it into '''Plasma Magmite Upgrade Parts''' [[File:UpgradeParts.png]] that when used on a Proto-Kinetic Accelerator, Advanced Plasma Cutter or Plasma Cutter Shotgun it will upgrade them to their mega version. If the upgrade parts remain unused for 10 minutes they will become inert and need to be reheated at the World Anvil.

The mega weapons are:

*[[File:KineticAccelerator_mega.png]]'''The Mega Proto-Kinetic Accelerator:''' This functions the same as the normal PKA but has 120% mod capacity (up from 100%)

*[[File:Adv_plasma_cutter_mega.png]]'''The Mega Advanced Plasma Cutter:''' This functions the same as an Advanced Plasma Cutter but goes 7 tiles with a bonus range of 7 tiles (up from 5/5)

* If you aggro a megafauna, run AWAY from the mining outpost. Most megafauna can be easily outpaced but have a much higher aggro range while and shortly after chasing someone, and it becomes incredibly difficult to leave the planet when an ash drake is lounging around in the mining shuttle.

*The Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.

*The mining drone can be repaired with a welding tool, but not in the middle of a fight. A goliath will always win in a one on one fight with a mining drone.

*Life improving things:

*The Hierophant can be manipulated and brought to the corners of the arena or out of it if you wish to smash ore at great yields. Just make sure to bring an ore box if you wish to do this without a satchel of holding.

*The Ore redemption machine can be unbolted and put on the mining shuttle then re-bolted for quick access. This saves you from taking the shuttle all the way back to the station just to dump your ore before going back.

* Tiers 0-1-2-3 can gib bodies, remember mining suits take 50% of damage away from bombs, so strip miners you want to make disappear forever first.

*Ripley is a fairly robust murdering tool, if you can, convince robotics to put a gravity catapult on it. '''SLAM PEOPLE INTO WALLS. THE SUFFERING NEVER ENDS.'''

* Though the Hierophant staff loses its offensives capabilities on the station, the Hierophant's Antenna, which can be purchased as a traitor Miner, will allow the staff to work as it would normally do on lava land.

*Without the Hierophants Antenna it is still a very strong and prominent kidnapping tool. You could stun your target and teleport them off the station onto a different Z level in seconds alone onto your playing fields and to crew it would seem as if they got erased from reality by a '''<s>[[Chrono Legionnaire]]</s>'''.